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News is that Walt Disney World will be using drones for their new holiday show at Disney Springs. They just recently got permission from FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) to be able to fly drones around the parks. Disney has said that they have permission from now till November 2020 to be able to have drones fly around the Disney parks in Florida and California. According to the FAA the waiver can be cancelled at any time and that Disney has to have drone operators who have their pilot certificates and they are allowing the aircraft to be flown at night.

The Haunted Mansion in Walt Disney World will be closing down November 28 2016 through December 1 2016. As of right now they are currently working on the outside of the ride and the inside of the ride is still running.

There will be a couple new upgrades coming to the FastPass+. When it comes to make the selections it is no longer required to make all three all at once. Now you are going to be able to make one or two selections and then later on make the last decision.  The second upgrade would be that once all three of the original FastPass+ choices that the guest will be able to go into the My Disney Experience app and select three more choices where as before the guests had to go to a kiosk and select three more experiences.  Upgrades will go into effect starting tomorrow April 10,2016. 

Magic Kingdom Refurbishment Attraction or dining Venue                                      Start Date                 End Date Seven Dwarfs Mine Train                                       1/1/14                       5/27/14 Astro Orbiter                                                     ...

Sad news in the Disney world to report. Those of you that know of Push the Talking Trash Can will be sad because they have retired his as on February 9th. Many in the Disney community have been arguing about if it was true or not but a screen shot of a internal Disney message board stated that they aren't having him anymore. As of today (February 10th) Disney said that since contract negotiations are confidential they are willing to admit that they couldn't come to terms and agree on continuing with the guy who made Push. If you don't know who Push is he is a trash can that moves around Tomorrowland at both Disneyland and Walt Disney World and he talks with guests, dances with them and just interacts with them.

Magic Kingdom Refurbishments                               Start Dates                 Finish Dates Splash Mountain                                                         1/6/14                        3/21/14 Tomorrowland Speedway                       ...

There is a movie coming out named Escape from Tomorrow. You may or may not have heard of this movie. Escape from Tomorrow is a fan made movie that was made without Disney's permission. They were at the Sundance Film Festival. The director of the movie spent two years in Korea editing the movie because of fear of Disney's lawyers and the beat down that they would cause.  The movie's plot is the father becomes obsessed with a couple of under aged girls on the last day of his family's vacation. He looses his job on the last day of the vacation and doesn't tell his family.   The style of the movie is a futuristic/terror movie. Here is the trailer:

Even more Disney ticket scam news is going on now. It use to be just regular Disney tickets that you can get at ticket booths but now it is Disney Cast members. These people are approaching the cast members and wanting them to purchase tickets with the discounts. Cast members in Florida have been fired because park officials have found out what they had done. These scamers are not being fair to cast members because they are costing the employees their jobs and livelyhoods. Employees truly love their jobs and don't want to loose their jobs but when they do become friends with people they don't realize that they will potentially loose their jobs. The cast members deserve to keep their jobs and that they do not need to be apart of these horrid scams.

So Disney has bought Lucasfilms for $4 billion in stocks and cash. I was rather excited for the fact that they would actually start making really good movies with the production part of Lucasfilms. But after reading that they will be making Star Wars parts 7, 8, and 9 I am rather disappointed in the fact that they want to dig the Star Wars movies into the ground some more after Lucas doing all his non-sense with the movies. Parts 1, 2, and 3 were not all that great to start with, 4, 5, and 6 had amazing story lines and were rather interesting to watch. What more is there to tell in this saga? I totally understand the buying of Lucasfilms from George Lucas. Don't really think that Disney would want to keep spending their money on licensing on products and having Star Wars weekend in Walt Disney World, Star Tours, and also the little Star Wars show in Disneyland. So it was good that they bought the company but not the greatest idea to make three more Star Wars movies.

Well Disney has done it again: They have raised their prices. I was going to be getting the premium season pass this year so that I can go on my birthday (summer baby). but I am not able to nor willing to pay the $649 for the pass. I did the math for two people that want to buy the southern california pass it would be around $700 for them to go. That is way to hard for them to be spending that much money for them to be spending. It is even harder for a family of 5. Yes it is to get money back from the creation of Carsland, Buena Vista Street (when you first enter Disney's California Adventure) and the entire refurb of the Matterhorn in Disneyland. For Southern California Resident: SoCal Resident 2-day 1 park per day Ticket Ages 3 to 9 $99 Ages 10 and up $99 SoCal Resident 2 Day Park Hopper Ticket Ages 3 to 9 $114 Ages 10 and Up $114 Socal Resident 3 Day 1 Park per day Ages 3 to 9 $129 Ages 10 and up $129 SoCal Resident 3 Day Park Hopper Ages 3 to 9 $144 Ages 10 and up $14...

I love high energy parades. I really do. Sadly Disneyland doesn't have any more of the high energy parades. Only Walt Disney World have them.